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What Is A Healthy Body Fat Percentage?
What is body fat and body fat percentage? Body fat is just as essential to the proper functioning of your body as muscle, organs and bones. Body fat provides cushioning and...
28th Sep 2022
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How To Work Out Maintenance Calories
What are ‘maintenance calories’ or ‘calorie maintenance’? Most people start thinking about the calories in food and drink when they’re looking to lose weight. That’s because, to achieve weight-loss, the...
23rd Sep 2022
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What do I wear for a DEXA body scan?
If you’re on this page you’re probably wondering how to prepare for a DEXA body scan. What to wear, whether you can eat or drink, are there any prohibited activities,...
29th Jul 2022
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Can I have a DEXA scan with a Pacemaker?
If you’re coming to BodyScan for a DEXA body scan, you may be concerned if you have an implant, such as a Pacemaker or Cochlear, prosthesis, breast implant or just...
25th Jul 2022
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The most incredible body re-composition we’ve ever seen
Just before Christmas 2016 a BodyScan client presented with a very dramatic change in body re-composition. Though the actual scans were 17 months apart, the client reported that the changes...
19th Jul 2022
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What are the Lean Indices on my DEXA report?
Your BodyScan DEXA scan report contains a vast array of data. On the front page of the report (bottom right) is a small table titled Lean Indices with two indices...
16th Jul 2022
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How long will it take to regain lost muscle (eg, during lockdown)?
How quickly can I regain muscle (and how quickly will I lose muscle)? During the pandemic in 2020/21, the gyms were closed and so most of us stopped weight-training completely....
13th Jul 2022
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Does having muscles REALLY ‘torch’ body fat?
“Pack on the muscle and torch that fat!!” “Turn yourself into a fat-burning inferno!!” So scream the headlines and advertisements from just about every muscle and fitness mag you lay eyes...
10th Jul 2022
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Why Tim Ferris’s ‘The 4-Hour Body’ is Impossible
Why you won’t achieve ‘the 4-Hour Body’ Tim Ferris’s bestselling book ‘The 4-Hour Body’ includes a chapter called ‘From Geek to Freak’, in which he claims to have gained 34lbs...
7th Jul 2022
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